by Brian Crawford | Sep 16, 2003 | family
baby update: Callum is sitting up (albiet with some assistance – he can only go a few seconds without toppling over). in other news it looks like we will not get HURRICANED. That’s good news for us but bad news for the people in Pamlico Beach. So it goes....
by Brian Crawford | Sep 11, 2003 | family, food
baby Callum turned five months old yesterday. I’ve been playing a bit with Blosxom. It is a very cool weblogging program that stores entries as text files (so that you can use a text editor to make an entry) and uses directory trees to indicate heirarchy. I have...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 24, 2003 | family, movies
first – obligatory baby picture. This week: goofiest smile yet! second – update. This weekend was pretty fun. We went to Millenium Music and took advantage of a DVD rental deal they’re offering – 25 movies for $25 over a period of 6 months. If...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 17, 2003 | family
my mother, who lives with my dad north of Toronto, has been in Toronto during the past couple of weeks to help her parents. My grandfather (who is 90) had a surgery performed last week at Toronto General. at any rate apparently my mother was at my grandparents’...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 31, 2003 | food
when I lived in Santa Clara, California there was a pizza joint down the street (within walking distance) called Pizz’a Chicago that I used to frequent quite often. They had a pizza (the Untouchables) that featured barbequed chunks of chicken, barbeque sauce and...
by Brian Crawford | Jul 21, 2003 | family
for those of you who aren’t tired of baby pictures by now: baby baby and his best buddy for those of you who ARE tired of baby pictures: Spamradio (I’m glad somebody finally found a use for spam…)
by Brian Crawford | Jul 11, 2003 | personal, travel
by Brian Crawford | Jul 2, 2003 | thoughts, travel
Peter and I were just now talking about “slimming down” on ICQ – about getting rid of a lot of the various “stuff” we keep around the house, neglected and gathering dust on shelves and in cupboards or rotting in bulbous Rubbermaid crates...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 30, 2003 | family, friends
it’s tummy time! had a good weekend; spent it with a bunch of different people from different crews (so to speak). We had Japanese food at Sakyo with Richard Friday evening, went to some friends’ Mexican-themed party in our neighborhood Saturday evening...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 23, 2003 | family
this one is for my family in Ontario and Yvonne’s family in Texas who don’t get to see pictures of the baby much. Here is a short FAQ about the baby. 1) does the baby get along well with Linux? Answer: Yes. Here is the proof. 2) does the baby get fussy?...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 22, 2003 | family
things are going pretty good around here. Yesterday I played golf at the Air Force base with John and a guy he works with named Pete. We had an awesome time. It was a no-stress game of 18 holes, which only cost us $25 each since John and Pete are contractors at the...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 9, 2003 | thoughts
went to the library the other week. We were looking for books on three specific topics: Golf, the German language, and KILLER ANTS. a few weeks ago while staying up late rocking the baby I watched two excellent shows on the Discovery Channel – the Future is...
by Brian Crawford | May 22, 2003 | family
things have been pretty good lately. Things were difficult for a while – both Yvonne and I were quite sick, and Callum came down with it too – it’s hard to take care of a sick baby when you’re both sick. Fortunately my mom came down from Canada...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 28, 2003 | family
even though Callum is only two weeks old he’s already mastered the art of kung-fu. Clay snapped the first piece of evidence while visiting China. Brian Dadin recently discovered that Callum has mastered the flying boot to the head maneuver. if these photos are...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 25, 2003 | family
for those of you who are interested, here are some more pictures of Callum. He’s a pretty active little guy. After these pictures were taken we rocked in the recliner for a bit and listened to some music and he fell asleep. it’s been a very active week...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 13, 2003 | family
here are some more pictures of baby Callum… on his birthday: the day after his birth: yesterday: He is doing excellently, as is Yvonne. He is quite a handful to say the least!
by Brian Crawford | Mar 23, 2003 | thoughts
I am thinking that we are at the start of a pivotal time period in the history of religion. we have reached a point where science can to some extent defy time. For the past 2000 years or so we have been riding on faith when it comes to the Christian Gospels. However,...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 14, 2003 | family, food
after work, Yvonne surprised me with a really awesome dinner. She used the fondue set that came with our wok to create a really nice three course meal. Course one: French bread, pretzels, cauliflower and broccoli dipped in a Swiss and cheddar cheese fondue. Course...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 7, 2003 | food, friends
last night our “coworkers and friends” crew went to Frank’s place and rolled our own sushi. It was really really fun. My favorites were the “rice on the outside” rolls, which were loaded with sticky rice and jam packed with crab meat,...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 26, 2003 | food
hey, it’s Superbowl Sunday. You know, I really like pistachios. They are sort of like the oyster of nuts. I especially like them dry roasted and salted. They’re really salty on the outside, yet the meat of the pistachio is actually quite sweet. The...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 20, 2003 | personal
I haven’t posted in a while so I thought I’d make an update concerning my current haps. lately, I have been: 1) studying Chinese (Mandarin) 2) studying German (to a lesser extent) 3) studying for the GMAT (ugh) 4) wheeling and dealing (taking care of...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 24, 2002 | music
I am very pleased with myself because I just found the original version of Mindwipe, a song I created a year or two ago after I got my second synthesizer. I never put it on mp3.com (since it contains some samples that are not my own) so it sort of fell by the wayside...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 21, 2002 | tech
I can’t help it. I really like BMW 3 series coupes. I’m not a yuppie and I’m not TERRIBLY image conscious (maybe just a bit). But basically these cars are really really fun to drive and I really like them!! AND they just got a facelift that I think...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 21, 2002 | movies
Two Towers was definitely better the second time (by many degrees).
by Brian Crawford | Dec 18, 2002 | movies
we just returned from seeing the Two Towers. What did I think? I don’t think I liked it much, for several reasons. the first and primary reason is that the movie really deviated from the book. There were many scenes – in fact, most of the scenes –...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 16, 2002 | music
I’d really like to get back to making some music – I haven’t done that for quite some time. I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time studying and haven’t been composing (or writing any fiction) lately. one problem I have had is that...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 10, 2002 | family
hey, I took some pictures of our living room because I’ve been telling friends at work about how great it looks. I went nutty and painted one wall of the house a very dark reddish-brown shade (the actual name of the color is Terre Haute Red – having never...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 13, 2002 | thoughts
to the lady in the Nissan Pathfinder I passed on the way to work… if you were eating your breakfast with one hand, and talking on your cell phone with the other hand, then what the heck hand were you using to DRIVE?
by Brian Crawford | Nov 8, 2002 | thoughts, work
you know who really rock are the ladies at work who are “garage walkers”. Every day or so they exercise by walking up and down our 6 floor downtown parking garage. What rocks about these people is that there is a perfectly nice _outside_ for them to walk...
by Brian Crawford | Nov 6, 2002 | personal
our beginners improv class is over. It culminated in a recital that family and friends were invited to attend. It turned out that the family and friends of our class packed the house! At any rate we were all quite nervous about doing an improv show before it actually...
by Brian Crawford | Oct 15, 2002 | personal
on Monday nights I’ve been taking an improv class with one of the actors in our local improv troupe, the Have Nots. I must say it’s been really fun so far, and very difficult. We’ve been taught, so far, to begin with input, then to visualize what you...
by Brian Crawford | Sep 27, 2002 | thoughts
it is stuff like this that makes me so angry. What makes me even angrier is how so many people are stupid enough to install invasive garbage like this on their computers and simply allow immoral companies to get away with scamming them.
by Brian Crawford | Sep 4, 2002 | friends, travel
had a good time in Atlanta this past weekend. Went with three good friends and we stayed downtown. Did a lot of dorky stuff this weekend – played a lot of games and the like. Saw some close online friends, albeit not for very long. Spent some money and got some...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 9, 2002 | personal
1. do you have a car? If so, what kind of car is it? I am currently driving a 1999 Honda Accord LX. 2. do you drive very often? every day, to work and back, and also if I need to get anywhere – I live in the suburbs. 3. what’s your dream car? realistically...
by Brian Crawford | Aug 9, 2002 | thoughts
looks like I made a livejournal. hi!
